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The ld_version() function computes the wrong version value for certain ld versions such as the following: $ ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils; SUSE Linux Enterprise 15) 2.37.20211103-150100.7.37 For input 2.37.20211103, the value computed is 202348030000 which is higher than the value for a later version like 2.39.0, which is 23900000. This issue was highlighted because with the above ld version, the powerpc kernel build started failing with ld error: "unrecognized option --no-warn-rwx-segments". This was caused due to the recent commit579aee9fc5("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") which added the --no-warn-rwx-segments linker flag if the ld version is greater than 2.39. Due to the bug in ld_version(), ld version 2.37.20111103 is wrongly calculated to be greater than 2.39 and the unsupported flag is added. To fix it, if version is of the form x.y.z and length(z) == 8, then most probably it is a date [yyyymmdd] commonly used for release snapshots and not an actual new version. Hence, ignore the date part replacing it with 0. Fixes:579aee9fc5("powerpc: suppress some linker warnings in recent linker versions") Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> [mpe: Tweak change log wording/formatting, add Fixes tag] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104202437.90039-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.